Why join us?

At Heaten you will be part of a caring, international and multidisciplinary team. You will be an important part of the success and growth of the company, and a part of solving one of the largest and most important challenges of climate change: the decarbonization of industrial heat. You will have a position in a fast-growing, flexible and modern company with unique, cutting-edge and scalable technology.

As a Control Systems Manager you will have the following responsibilities:

• Overall responsible for Heaten’s industrial automation system design, including software development, and also participating directly in hands-on development whenever relevant or required
• Responsible for creating and maintaining a strategy for Heaten’s industrial automation systems together with the CTO
• Responsible for hiring highly competent control systems technologists, including, but not limited to programmers, electrical engineers and technicians
• Responsible for proposing, planning, technology planning and coordination of Heaten’s industrial automation systems
• Ensuring that the right control system equipment is selected
• Ensuring that the right tools are available
• Coordinate between different workgroups/departments, e.g. process design, mechanical design, digitalization so that software development is done according to requirements and specifications

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• An excellent and professional way of communicating and interacting with colleagues and employees reporting to you
• Technical education (bachelor’s/diploma/master’s degree)
• Min 5 years+ experience within relevant field, including management experience
• Experience from practical test applications and/or installation/commissioning
• Solid experience from the design and operation of real-time control systems
• General high level of technical insight
• Substantial hands-on experience with development of electrical systems, instrumentation and complex software for industrial automation
• Knowledge of traditional development systems is also an advantage (e.g. Siemens S7 and similar)

We also believe that you are:

• Proficient in modern PLC programming languages and development systems (e.g. CoDeSys)
• Proficient in at least one high-level programming language, e.g. C#, C++ etc.
• International experience
• Fluent in English
• Adequate or fluent in German
• Enjoying managing employees with various backgrounds.

Our new colleague will work in close collaboration and coordination with Heaten’s technical team and will be reporting to the CTO.

A limited amount of traveling is to be expected, but the main work location is in Kristiansand, Norway. Home office is an available option whenever relevant or required.